77 results for “secondary hypoxic injury”
0y · Male·Global cerebral hypoxic injury and perinatal asphyxia secondary to uterine ruptu…
Joseph Thurgood-Gates died at 5 days old from global cerebral hypoxic injury due to uterine rupture during labour. The death was preventable. His mother, Ms Thurgood, had two …
43y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to haemopericardium and tamponade complicating ru…
Mr Trevor McDonald, 43-year-old male, died from hypoxic brain injury following cardiac tamponade complicating coronary angioplasty. During elective PCI at Franks…
2y · Male·Tramadol toxicity in the setting of adenotonsillectomy in a child with Pierre Ro…
…peutic concentrations. The child deteriorated overnight with respiratory depression, seizures, and severe hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury, leading to death despite intensive care. Key clinical failures included: the pres…
50y · Male·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy secondary to choking on food bolus
A 50-year-old man with acquired brain injury and intellectual disability died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy following aspiration of a food bolu…
39y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to hanging
…athroom and was found unresponsive at 6am. Despite prompt resuscitation and ICU care, she suffered severe hypoxic brain injury and died 7 days later. While the coroner identified process failures requiring remediation, …
30y · Male·Heroin overdose
… Order. Dr L. wrote a complex death certificate listing cerebellar tonsillar herniation, cerebral oedema, hypoxic brain injury, and respiratory arrest due to heroin overdose, but did not report to the coroner. The findi…
33y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to plastic bag asphyxia
Jodi McPaul, a 33-year-old woman with long-standing schizophrenia and chronic suicide risk, was admitted involuntarily to Frankston Hospital on 29 March 2007. Despite psychiatric team awareness of her vulnerability and p…
42y · Male·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury secondary to cardiac arrest caused by massive pul…
A 42-year-old man died from hypoxic ischaemic brain injury following cardiac arrest due to a massive pulmonary embolism. He sustained a tibia…
59y · Female·Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury secondary to compression of the neck in the circu…
A 59-year-old woman with major depression died by hanging using her dressing gown tie while a voluntary inpatient at a private psychiatric clinic. She was assessed as low-risk and had no restriction on ligature access. D…
2y · Male·Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy due to cardiorespiratory arrest secondary to up…
…The following day he suffered cardiorespiratory arrest from upper airway obstruction, resulting in severe hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury and death. Key issues: inadequate observation period; poor documentation of senior…
61y · Female·Peritonitis due to anastomotic leak at gastrectomy site; pathological obesity as…
A 61-year-old woman with pathological obesity died from peritonitis secondary to anastomotic leak following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. The procedure itself was appropriate for …
18y · Female·Hypoxic brain injury secondary to hanging
…oint and a thin fabric (possibly a bed sheet) as a ligature. Despite resuscitation efforts, she died from hypoxic brain injury. The coroner found that clinical management was reasonable, but identified systemic failures…
60y · Female·acute cerebral bleed resulting from blunt trauma and late haemorrhagic progressi…
…gton, aged 60, died from acute cerebral bleed resulting from haemorrhagic progression of a traumatic brain injury sustained in a bathroom fall on 21 September 2015. The injury caused a contre coup contusion to the opposi…
58y · Male·Multiple injuries occasioned in a motor vehicle accident (broken neck, ruptured …
…s that were potentially survivable with appropriate treatment—Nurse Paulus failed to conduct primary and secondary surveys, did not take vital signs, and agreed to transport the deceased to his remote camp rather than t…
43y · Male·hypoxic brain injury secondary to asphyxiation by ligature
A 43-year-old man died from hypoxic brain injury due to asphyxiation by ligature while an inpatient at a rehabilitation centre. He had underg…
20y · Male·hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy secondary to displacement of tracheostomy and p…
…ilure to perform timely finger thoracostomy significantly contributed to Adam's 46-minute cardiac arrest, hypoxic brain injury, and death. The rigid adherence to an inadequate airway plan, absence of effective team comm…
11y · Female·Pneumonia complicating cerebral palsy secondary to KCNQ2 developmental and epile…
HD was an 11-year-old girl with severe cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and multiple complex medical conditions including central respiratory depression and recurrent chest infections. She died from pneumonia at home in August …
1y · Male·Cerebral anoxia caused by cardiac arrest caused by bronchiolitis and bronchopneu…
…old boy, died from cerebral anoxia following cardiac arrest caused by bronchiolitis and bronchopneumonia secondary to influenza A infection. He initially presented with croup symptoms on 15 July 2005, was discharged aft…
4y · Female·hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy attributed to intrapartum asphyxia secondary to…
Aurora Sleep died from hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy caused by uterine rupture during labour induction with prostaglandin gel. Her mo…
31y · Male·Hypoxic brain injury caused by the exogenous administration of insulin, resultin…
Jesse Drabsch, 31, died from hypoglycaemia after self-injecting insulin in a gym bathroom. A competitive bodybuilder using performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs), Jesse entered the bathroom at 5:30pm on 16 Novembe…
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